Chapter 3301-69 Miscellaneous Programs

(A)
Pursuant to section
3319.55 of the Revised Code, a
grant program is hereby established to recognize and reward public and
chartered non-public school teachers who hold a valid teaching certificate
issued by the national board for professional teaching standards. The
superintendent for public instruction shall administer this program.

(B)
Grants will be awarded to eligible full
time teachers who complete and submit to the Ohio department of education a
grant request form.

(1)
Eligible individual
means any person who meets the following criteria:

(a)
Holds a valid teaching certificate issued
by the national board for professional teaching standards (first certificate
only); and

(b)
Is employed full
time as a teacher by a school district board of education in Ohio during the
grant year.

(C)
Individuals may receive an annual grant
(up to ten years) by submitting to the Ohio department of education by April
each year an annual grant form that does the following:

(1)
Documents the date the teacher was
awarded certification from the national board for professional teaching
standards; and

(2)
Documents the
teacher is employed full time in an Ohio school district (administrator
signature required).

(D)
The amount of the annual grant awarded to
each eligible person as defined under paragraphs (B)(1)(a) and (B)(1)(b) of
this rule is as follows:

(1)
Two thousand
five hundred dollars for any teacher accepted as a candidate for certification
by the national board for professional teaching standards on or before May 31,
2003, and issued a certificate by the national board for professional teaching
standards on or before December 31, 2004;

(2)
One thousand dollars for any teacher
accepted as a candidate for certification by the national board for
professional teaching standards after May 31, 2003.

(3)
If the funds appropriated for grant
awards in any fiscal year are insufficient to award the full grant amount to
each person who is eligible in that fiscal year, the superintendent of public
instruction shall prorate the amount of the grant awarded in that fiscal year.

(1)
This rule does not
apply to circumstances applicable to division (A) of section
3321.04 of the Revised Code.

(2)
Pursuant to division (B) of
section 3321.04 of the Revised Code, the
superintendent of schools of the county, city, or exempted village school
district, or the person designated by such superintendent, may excuse a child
over fourteen years of age from attendance for a future limited period for
performing necessary work directly and exclusively for the child's parents or
legal guardians.

(3)
Acceptable
reasons for an excuse from future attendance may include the following:

(a)
The existence of an emergency condition
at home such as absence, illness or death of the parent or guardian of the
child;

(b)
Farm work of the parent
or guardian during a time of the year in which the amount of farm work to be
performed may be regarded as properly exceptional;

(c)
Inability of the parent or guardian to
employ help in the family business. (The determination of inability shall be
made by the superintendent or his/her designee.)

(4)
Except for cases in which an excuse has
already been approved by the superintendent or his/her designee, a child may
not be granted the excuse described in paragraph (A)(2) of this rule if the
child has not been in regular attendance at school during the current school
year.

(5)
Except for emergency
situations in which there is insufficient time for a child to apply for an
excuse from future attendance from school and for such a permit to be granted,
no permit shall be issued for the excuse of a child from future attendance at
school until proof is established to the satisfaction of the superintendent or
his/her designee of the need for such absence. In cases of emergency, the
student shall seek a permit as soon as possible.

(6)
The excuse shall be limited to a period
not to exceed five days and can be renewed for five additional days. At no
time, however, shall such excuses permit a student to be absent from school for
period of more than ten consecutive days. Renewals shall be granted at the
discretion of the superintendent or his/her designee.

(7)
Notwithstanding paragraph (A)(2) of this
rule, no child shall be excused for any period of time when such absence would
materially endanger the child's educational welfare and scholastic advancement.
Such determination shall be made by the superintendent or his/her designee.

(8)
The written request for the
absence of a child for a future limited period of time and the reasons for such
absence, as stated by the parent or guardian over his/her signature, shall be
filed by the parent or guardian with the superintendent of schools in the
district from which the child is seeking to obtain an excuse from school.
Requests for absence may be filed with the superintendent on behalf of the
parent or guardian by the principal or teacher of the school or schools under
the administration of such superintendent. A copy of the excuse shall be sent
to the person in charge of the child.

(9)
The absence from school shall apply to
only those days specified by the superintendent or his/her designee in the
excuse. Such absence can begin only after the permit is granted in writing by
the superintendent or his/her designee except in emergency situations in which
there is insufficient time for a child to apply for an excuse from future
attendance from school and for such a permit to be granted. In cases of
emergency, the student shall seek a permit as quickly as possible.

(10)
Notwithstanding paragraphs (A)(6) and
(A)(7) of this rule, at the discretion of the superintendent or his/her
designee, a student may be excused for a longer period of time than ten days if
a child's parent or guardian has recently died or become totally or partially
incapacitated and there is no older brother or sister living in the home who is
out of school. In such cases, the superintendent or his/her designee may
request a certificate of a physician attesting to the physical condition of the
parent or guardian.

(B)
Regulations governing excuses for absence from school for the following
reasons:

(For purposes of this paragraph, "approving authority" shall be
defined as the person or office designated by the principal, superintendent, or
designated by local policy that in a given school reviews student absenteeism
on a day-to-day basis and either approves or denies a student's reason for
being absent from school.)

(1)
The
parent or guardian must provide an explanation for the absence, which shall be
recorded by the approving authority of the school and shall include the date
and time of the absence. Emancipated youth and married children under the age
of eighteen may provide the explanation for their absence from school to the
approving authority.

(2)
An excuse
for absence from school may be approved on the basis of one or more of the
following conditions:

(a)
Illness of the
child. (The approving authority may require the written statement of a
physician/mental health professional if it is deemed appropriate.)

(b)
Illness in the family necessitating the
presence of the child. (The approving authority may require the written
statement of a physician and an explanation as to why the child's absence was
necessary, if it is deemed appropriate.)

(c)
Quarantine of the home. (The absence of a
child from school under this condition is limited to the length of quarantine
as determined by the proper health officials.)

(d)
Death of a relative. (The absence arising
from this condition is limited to a period of three days unless a reasonable
causes may be shown by the applicant child for a longer absence.)

(e)
Medical or dental appointment. (The
approving authority may require the written statement of a physician or dentist
if its deemed appropriate.)

(f)
Observance of religious holidays. (Any child shall be excused if his/her
absence was for the purpose of observing a religious holiday consistent with
his/her truly held religious beliefs.)

(g)
College visitation. (The approving
authority may require verification of the date and time of the visitation by
the college, university, or technical college.)

(h)
Emergency or other set of circumstances
in which the judgment of the superintendent of schools constitutes a good and
sufficient cause for absence from school. Pursuant to division (C) of section
3321.04 of the Revised Code, the
board of education of the city or exempted village school district or the
governing board of the educational service center in which a public school is
located or the governing authorities of a private or parochial school may in
the rules governing the discipline in such schools, prescribe the authority by
which and the manner in which any child may be excused for absence from such
school for good and sufficient reasons.

(A)
Pursuant to section
5162.363 of the Revised
Code, the purpose of this rule is to establish a process by which qualified
medicaid school providers participating in the medicaid school component of the
medicaid program pay to the department of education the nonfederal share of the
department's expenses incurred administering the component.

(4)
"Administering office" means the office within the department assigned the duty
of administering the department's responsibilities related to the medicaid
program;

(5)
"Administering costs"
means the costs incurred by the department in carrying out its administrative
responsibilities related to the medicaid school component of the medicaid
program. Such costs include, but shall not be limited to, personnel, contracted
services, costs expected to be paid to the Ohio department of jobs and family
services pursuant to the interagency agreement entered into pursuant to section
5162.363 of the Revised
Code, and other appropriate indirect costs; and

(6)
"State education aid" has the same
meaning as defined in section
5751.20 of the Revised
Code.

(C)
The
administering office shall compute the following for each fiscal year during
which the medicaid school component is in operation:

(1)
An estimate of the total administrative
costs for the fiscal year, developed pursuant to this paragraph, which may be
revised from time to time as determined by the administering office. Amounts to
ensure sufficient cash flow may be included in this estimate;

(2)
An estimate of the federal share of
funding to be reimbursed to the department from the department of Medicaid for administrative costs for
the fiscal year;

(3)
In
consultation with the department of Medicaid, a
numeric value for each provider, reflective of the proportion that each
provider's estimated paid claims represents, of the estimated total of all paid
claims to all providers for the fiscal year;

(4)
An estimate of the amount to be collected
from each provider for administrative costs by subtracting the amount computed
pursuant to paragraph (C)(2) of this rule from the amount computed pursuant to
paragraph (C)(1) of this rule and multiplying the resulting value by the
numeric value developed for each provider pursuant to paragraph (C)(3) of this
rule. The results of these computations shall be published on the department's
website, and should specify for each provider the estimate of the annual amount
computed to be collected and the schedule, frequency, and proportion by which
such amounts shall be calculated; and

(5)
After the close of each fiscal year, the
following shall be computed by the administering office:

(c)
The actual federal share of funding
reimbursed to each provider, and for the program as a whole, and a numerical
value for each provider reflective of the actual proportion of each provider's
actual paid claims to the actual total of all paid claims for the fiscal
year;

(d)
The amount each provider
would have actually contributed toward the administrative costs by subtracting
the amount computed in paragraph (C)(5)(b) of this rule from the amount
computed in paragraph (C)(5)(q) of this rule and multiplying the resulting
value by the numeric value developed for each provider in paragraph (C)(5)(c)
of this rule.

(e)
The difference
between the actual amount each provider should have contributed as computed in
paragraph (C)(5)(d) of this rule and the amount estimated and actually
collected pursuant to paragraph (C)(4) and paragraph (D) of this rule. The
results of this computation shall be published on the department's website and
disseminated to providers.

(D)
Pursuant to a schedule published on the
department's website and proportions determined by the administering office,
the estimated amount to be collected from each provider as determined pursuant
to paragraph (C)(4) of this rule shall be collected in the following manner:

(1)
In the case of a city, exempted village,
or local school district, the amount shall be deducted from the state education
aid calculated for the district, and, if necessary, from the payment made to
the district under sections
321.24 and
323.156 of the Revised
Code;

(2)
In the case of a
community school, the amount shall be deducted from the payment made to the
school pursuant to division (D) of section
3314.08 of the Revised Code;
and

(3)
In the case of the state
school for the blind or the state school for the deaf, the amount shall be
collected by the submission of an intrastate transfer voucher for the amount
owed to the respective entity.

(E)
Upon the computation of amounts pursuant
to paragraph (C)(5)(e) of this rule, if the computation is a positive value,
additional collections shall be made in the manner specified in paragraphs
(D)(1) to (D)(3) of this rule. If the amount is a negative value, amounts shall
be repaid to the provider in a manner determined by the administering office
and communicated to the effected providers.